I’m going to try and make this as un-boring an experience for you as possible. Despite the fact that I have a degree in journalism, I don’t write that often, if at all.
Don’t expect the same level of English that you’d find in a Charles Dickens novel, that’s not my shtick.
My aim is to document my round the world trip so that when I look back at it as an auld fella, my memories will come back to me. Memory is a very important part of life. What’s the point in having all of these great experiences if those memories fade? Even bad memories are important. You use them to learn and develop as a person.
I’m trying to make these posts as personable as possible. It won’t be a case of ‘I went here and then I did this and then such and such a thing happened’ That sort of nonsense is as boring for me to write as it is for you to read.
A brief explainer; about 12 months ago my friend Elliot wrote to me on Messenger with the fantastic news that he and his lovely girlfriend Tess were after getting engaged.
Elliot and his family emigrated from Ireland to Perth, Australia in 2008. I’ve been wanting to visit him every year since but was never really in the position to do so for one reason or another.
We’ve remained great friends thanks mostly to social media. It has its bad points but for the likes of keeping in touch with friends and family overseas I can’t fault it.
Once I heard about the wedding, I made it my mission to set off ‘Down Under’. After Elliot asked me to be his groomsman on the big day how could I say no?
This is something that I’ve been wanting to do my whole life. Australia for so long seemed a pipe dream to me, an unattainable goal. I’m blessed that I’m at the perfect stage of my life to do this trip and do it right.
Over the next two months or so, I plan to see as much of Australia as I can and from there, follow my nose and go wherever I want to. New Zealand is certainly calling me as is California but who knows where I might end up visiting before I return to Ireland.
I’ll do my best to keep you up to date as best I can and hopefully give you a good idea of how I’m getting on.
For now though, it’s Slán Ireland and G’day Australia.
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